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I find all the anger over grafitti pretty funny, coming from an industry that allows locos to become so dirty that it's hard to tell what railroad it belongs to (A Toledo area CSX loco a few years ago), cars that are so rusty they appear to be sprayed with some sort of orange paint (Hundreds of cars), and cars unpainted for so long that the NYC, PC, NW, etc logos are still visible, through the "new" paint, or because the peeling paint, probably badly applied, is coming off, and the old paint is showing through. Last week I saw the first plainly visible NYC logo on a boxcar I have seen in a while, but I haven't watched as many trains over the last year as I normally do. I did see a couple of PC boxcars last month. Then there are the piles of rotted ties lying around, old rusty rail, etc, boarded up towers, and crossings that are rough as hell, etc. And they are actually worried about grafitti? Because it looks bad? Sure, some or even most of it does, but some of it shows undeniable talent. If the railroads had perfect paint, stuff was clean, and the right of way was spotless, I could see them crying about grafitti. But since they don't, the whining about grafitti is pointless, and kind of a joke. I'd rather see a hopper with "BITE ME" go by than one of the endless rusted hulks I normally see.
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